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Star Trek Online will be kicking off its 31st season later this month with the arrival of its Both Worlds update on PC on January 23. The upcoming season will pick up from where the storyline left off last season with the tearing of the Reality Vortex and will send players into the heart of the Mirror Borg Unicomplex where [...]
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Tencent continues to rework Tarisland’s gameplay systems to address feedback gathered from the last closed beta test. One of the pain points that testers noted was that the crafting system was too complicated. “We have learned that some players find Crafting to be too complex and time-consuming, with low outputs, impacting both the in-game economy and player experience,” Tencent reports. [...]
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The monstrous one-eyed duo of Lucanus and Decimus have returned to terrorize Aeternum as New World brings back its Legacy of Crassus event. The limited-time encounter will be available from now until January 23, giving players another chance to grab its exclusive rewards. “Banish General Crassus’s monstrous captains for new event-specific, daily rewards,” Amazon said. “Lucanus and Decimus, brothers bound [...]
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World of Warcraft: Dragonflight will soon be kicking off its fourth and final season, which will of course come with a new collection of gear sets to earn. Unlike previous seasons, however, Blizzard is leaving it up to players to decide what the gear sets will look like and what bonuses they’ll grant through a community poll on the official [...]
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ZeniMax Online Studios may have ditched its year-long story arcs in Elder Scrolls Online but its apparently still sticking to its traditional reveal timelines. January 18th will mark the studio’s first Chapter reveal of the year where it will also be revealing its general plans for the nearly 10-year-old fantasy MMORPG in 2024. “During the show, we’ll give you a [...]
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Square Enix has announced another 24-hour maintenance downtime for Final Fantasy XIV next week in line with the release of Patch 6.55 and a massive data center upgrade. The extended downtime begins on January 15 at 2 a.m. PST. Barring any unexpected issues, the servers are expected to go online at around the same time on January 16. Patch 6.55: [...]
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Western players who’ve been playing the Korean version of Throne and Liberty were summarily booted from the game yesterday with the game’s latest update. The said update introduced new security measures to help prevent account theft, which inadvertently ended up locking non-Korean players out of the game. Throne and Liberty KR now requires players to verify both their accounts and [...]
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This week’s EverQuest 2 patch might not be big on content but it’s definitely big on quality-of-life features. The highlight of the update is the option to cancel research tasks, just in case you mistakenly set your research assistant to work on upgrading one spell instead of another or changed your mind in the middle of the research process. The [...]
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Free-to-play mobile MMORPG Eterspire has officially launched on Android after roughly a year of being exclusively available on iOS devices. The cel-shaded indie title launched into early access in January 2023 featuring three playable classes and traditional MMORPG gameplay without autoplay, pay-to-win items, or predatory microtransactions usually found in free-to-play mobile games. “Eterspire is a unique fantasy mobile MMORPG set [...]
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Hi-Rez subsidiary Prophecy Games held another Tribes 3: Rivals playtest over the weekend where fans were able to take recent improvements for a test drive. That included various tweaks to movement, weapons, loadouts, turrets, and maps, along with a whole host of bug fixes. Now that the playtest has come to an end, feedback to report that feedback has come [...]
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